Speaking to SW:TOR blog DarthHater, Jake Neri has given some of his insight into what the inspirations were for the final two classes for The Old Republic: the Jedi Consular and Sith Inquisitor.

We talked a lot today about being able to customize your classes in a number of different directions. When you think of Sith Inquisitor, you’re thinking about how we’re talking about him today in the Emperor Palpatine mold, the force lightning using guy. But as time goes on, we will show you other ways to customize that class that will give you a different gameplay style. We thought as core classes the Consular and the Inquisitor made the most sense. We thought they balanced well against the other two. You can think of the Jedi Knight and the Sith Warrior as more of a melee-style Jedi, and the other two maybe more of the ranged-style Jedi. I think it made a lot of sense.

Makes sense to us, but what do you think?

Jake Neri on the Sith Inquisitor & Jedi Consular [DarthHater]

Zam.com got the great opportunity to interview a couple members from The Old Republic team at BioWare. They are Producer Jake Neri and Senior Writer Hall Hood and this took place shortly after the “Behind the Scenes” look at Comic-Con 2009. As usual with interviews for this game, they do not reveal any new information, but there are a few interesting snippets. Read more»

IGN sat down earlier this week with Dallas Dickinson from Bioware and Jake Neri from LucasArts for an extensive Q&A about The Old Republic.

Don’t be fooled by the size of the article though. Not a lot of new meaty info in this one unfortunately =) Worth a read anyway. Might be something in there you didn’t catch somewhere else!

Check out the interview here.